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Red Queen Effect

Red Queen Effect

Nov 07, 2020
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The red queen effect can be defined as the increased pressure to constantly adapt and improve just to survive.

Not just to win, but just to survive. 

The phrase is taken from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, where two characters were constantly running yet remaining in the same place relative to each other. 

They had to run faster not just to ge…

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